Creating a Terrifying Villain: Inglourious Basterds

For the first episode of Forming Film, we take a look at one of the most terrifying villains in film: Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds.
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[@edinscot56789]

Hans exhibited one of the greatest traits of a true psychopath: charm.

[@hotrodjmanofficial448]

Superficial charm at that

[@hotrodjmanofficial448]

Psychopaths posess charm because they are uncannily observant and understand what makes people tick - and how to be liked. Appealing traits in social scenarios. Hans is a master at reading people.

[@fbryn0688]

@@hotrodjmanofficial448 as i am one. i can confirm that this is true

[@fbryn0688]

@Josh Nonya you will never catch me alive

[@fbryn0688]

Josh Nonya no. Im like A ghost

[@NikkiMKarLen]

Christoph Waltz is phenomenal.

[@SiliconBong]

Hans Landa was a sensitive man.

[@jasonhparker71]

SiliconBong i think shultz was, but landa was a selfish man.

[@dawnhoger1434]

Jason Parker

[@jakereynolds8897]

Nikki M. Solis That he is.

[@ThatRandomGuy30]

Tell us something we don't know.

[@grail68]

What makes Hans Landa such a great villain is that he's very much not a Nazi at all. He's an opportunist with no regard for human life, quick to sell out the Jews to the Nazis and the Nazis to the Americans, all for his own benefit rather than any kind of coherent ideology.

[@kapitan19969838]

@Muster Gwarfield Yeah yeah, that's all well and good, but we don't need to burn them, now do we?

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

Muster Gwarfield um, no. No to your entire post. The Nazis were genocidal monsters, and it is no less wrong that the Japanese slaughtered so many Chinese. Also, fuck your dribbling idiocy.

[@anon_148]

@@nicholasfarrell5981 The quy you quoted is right, lay off the kool-aid for once.

[@celtiberian]

He is a smart man navigating in a crazy world.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

@@anon_148 Flavor-Ade, not Kool-Aid. If you're going to call me a mindless follower, get the brand right at least.

[@KoxenBols]

Can someone mention how incredible the "frenchman" acts? As if Christoph Waltz' flawless acting wasn't enough, the visible fear and distress of the frenchman is a huge cherry on top. So many of the scenes in this movie left me speechless, one of my all time favourites, an actual masterpiece. You can say what you want about Tarantino as a person, but he's a movie making genius.

[@GeddyRC]

I don't think who he is as a person matters one iota, he's a film maker and that's as much as I care to judge him for. And my judgement says he's one hell of a filmmaker, at that.

[@BrokenCurtain]

Perrier LaPadite, played by Denis Ménochet

[@gannasucks1252]

The same goes for the whole cast! The German commander in the basement pub, the Frenchman, Stiglitz etc! Many of whom I've never heard of or seen in anything else due to acting in a different movie industry entirely..

[@Deivid-bn6yw]

VargVikernes4Pres one scene that left me speechless was when Marcel locked the doors to the cinema and was about to set the equipment on fire and the music from Zulu dawn played. Not only is it one of my favourite movies of all time it’s also very old so I didn’t expect the reference at all

[@BrokenCurtain]

@@Deivid-bn6yw You just made me realize that we're responding to someone whose username is a reference to a Norwegian Nazi who murdered a guy and set churches on fire.

[@multitrackjake8698]

I'm not sure this video gives Waltz enough credit. Tarantino almost axed this movie because he couldn't cast Landa until he found Waltz.

[@lizvlx]

yep. it needed an viennese nazi. cultured and smart and having lived with jewish ppl. and opportunistic, selfish, relentless, murderous, sadistic, and fucking full of himself. the role reminded me of my grandfather, charisma and SS.

[@greg4081]

@@lizvlx lol

[@lizvlx]

@@greg4081 not really that funny but i know what you mean :)

[@Robcremvidz78]

@@lizvlx I’m interested to hear about your grandfather!

[@lizvlx]

@@Robcremvidz78 what you wanna know?

[@connorfarrell1424]

You forgot the fact that Landa sold out his entire nation just to give himself some immunity

[@MyRockHoMama]

connor farrell traders are worse than Nazis Nazis ere fighting for their nation we can give them that But traders no matter what country you come from are like rats ratting out their gang for a lesser sentence

[@vaughnordakowski8774]

@@MyRockHoMama case my case, what of you want to leave your gang/nation because you figured out there were fucked up, are you gonna stand by what you believe is wrong

[@user-ev2li8xx1m]

@@vaughnordakowski8774 He didn't leave the Nazis because he thought their ideology was wrong, he left because it was advantageous for him to do so. He is a rat for snitching on those he was comrades with simply to benefit himself.

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

@@user-ev2li8xx1m least he tried to kill Hitler. By using an American bomb. For somebody that scary, his ending is kinda comical.

[@xiomarits]

Landa is austrian as cristoph thats why he easly make a deal with americans

[@gustavgustaffson9553]

edit: great video

[@croup007]

*appreciate

[@maciejmroran7519]

Waltz doesn't speak italian ^^ , he just made it sound very convincing in that scene.

[@trazyntheinfinite9895]

i speak english, german, french and can flawlessly butcher russian.

[@titsmcgee1538]

Maciej R The pronounciation was absolutely on point. That guy is just too good..

[@neoir8514]

INTJ-Scorpio-Sigma-Male yeah ok

[@RangerHouston]

"let's talk about the anti-Semitic elephant in the room" Hermann Göring?

[@lotuzz7409]

underrated comment

[@bearjew6645]

Tom Ives AHAHAHAHA I’m Jewish and I cant breathe, this is my favourite movie of all time

[@kai-in1xt]

I'm dead ☠☠☠

[@not-a-theist8251]

I did Nazi that coming

[@c14n_]

@@bearjew6645 So - are you, in fact, a golem?

[@thejallenator5722]

Hans Landa is a truly great villain as he made us hate him, for what he did to that perfectly good strudel. Bastard, I would've eaten it. It looked delicious.

[@andrewcho9779]

Since this movie has a lot of symbolism, I thought Hans did that on purpose as a reference to when Shoshanna's family was shot to death at the dairy farm. He wanted her to not forget that moment and I bet he wanted to make sure she knew that she was in his mind, something that I imagine would put Shoshanna under more pressure.

[@rickeydart3040]

@@andrewcho9779 But damn it looked tasty.

[@ragnarlothbrok8355]

i didn't hate him.

[@gmarikbraun6460]

Actually I never hated him

[@LeeRenthlei]

Actually he made us loved him more.

[@HP-wy8dr]

Landa's line "Don't forget the cream" sold it to me that he knew exactly who the woman was.

[@lauragraves4342]

I think maybe he didn't and was trying to gauge her reactions. If you're as smart as he is, you don't have to know for sure to do that. He plays off of people be their reactions unceasingly. Doing the things that will purposefully make them wonder if he knows by doing the exact thing he would do if he did know for sure, whether or not he knows. And he enjoys it so much he would never miss an opportunity unless another set of mannerisms in the situation would serve him better. Even when he knows, he doesn't come right out and say it because he's too much of a shark. He loves it and as an interrogation method he learns even more info. I personally think he would especially always do it if he didn't know, since this is a large part of how he figures things out aside from the info provided him by the Nazi party. To me it seems to be his modus operandi whether he is 100% sure or not. But I could be wrong. I think of the initial info given to him by other nazis as the minimal surface data, and then him forming his more in depth opinions based on what he can unnerve others into divulging. 🤔

[@andrewcho9779]

I'm wondering if he did that to try to expose Shoshanna as a Jew since I believe cream is not kosher. If she said no, I imagine she would've exposed herself and Hans Landa can arrest her but also, I think you might also be right as Hans probably already knew and used the cream and the milk to remind her of what happened in the opening of the movie.

[@HP-wy8dr]

@@lauragraves4342 I personally think that this line was too specific for that to be the case, I mean he'd have to be incredibly insistent about waiting for the cream with everyone he ate dinner with haha. I reckon he did know, but he didn't care at all because he was no longer responsible for searching for Jews. At the end of the film we find out how little his loyalty stretches for the Nazis and he's just looking out for himself. So she's not his problem as far as he's concerned. That being said, he was still going to do his best to terrify her by indicating that he knows who she is.

[@lauragraves4342]

@@HP-wy8dr wow I think you're right, actually. 🤔👏👏👏👏

[@TheGreatGritzy]

@@HP-wy8dr seems too unlikely that he'd know exactly who she is, since he killed her family 4 years prior and he never got a good look at her face. I just think he was filtering simply whether she was a Jew or not.

[@MedievalSolutions]

I believe he does know for one simple reason. He ordered her a glass of milk. Which is the same thing he drank before killing her whole family.

[@danttwaterfall]

you have to ask yourself if someone would actually remember what he drank while on a job so many years before

[@GHOSTY345]

Does he drink anything other than milk though by choice?

[@abara5678]

Landa isnt the guy to forget anything especcially in the field he´s so proud of being called the best... he knows but its just another powerplay from him

[@selfinducedcoma3712]

and by that point he knew the war was ending soon in defeat so must've known she'd try and do something.

[@Oberstgreup]

The reason he was drinking milk the first time was because it was a dairy farm, so he'd probably remember. I'm sure he knew who she was and roughly what she was up to, but if he did anything before the night of the premier he'd tip off the other conspirators. He may not have realized that her plans were completely independent of theirs.

[@cr0be]

the strudel scene is a masterpiece

[@thedude4795]

Why is it? Im not a fan of hype, I believe that perfection speaks for itself.

[@imporiorvelarius6550]

@@thedude4795 Oh there you are wrong it brings a sense of pressure building slowly and slowly

[@martinschmelzle4864]

I love Strudel so much

[@justin45789]

Yes but the bar scene is by far the best

[@formerunsecretarygeneralba9536]

After watching inglorious basterds I keep saying "aaah landa, you're here" every time I see someone I know. I don't know why but I like saying that.

[@Magnus_Loov]

What makes Landa so terrifying is his social manner where he seems to be charming, but at the same time totally aware of his power. This makes the contrast when he switches from his "friendly chatter" with lots of gestures to the the totally stiff and focused stare when he accuses the frenchman of hiding jews very, very powerful. The manner also masked the "Does he know or not" very well. Another thing that helped was the fact that at the time Walz wasn't a famous actor that you had seen in other movies compared to Samuel L Jackson who you had seen in a bunch of movies before Jackie Brown, many of them where he played a cool person with a swagger and some funny one-liners. It is harder to associate him with an evil person at that point. With an unknown actor you don't have any reference points from earlier movies. But with that said, Walz was phenomenal in his role.

[@freebird1721]

Amen

[@KaizerMan]

INTJ-Scorpio-Sigma-Male What do you mean you have his personality? I get you’re a recluse who feels dislike towards the world, but how is that relevant?

[@GrautiXtv]

@INTJ-Scorpio-Sigma-Male aww how cute is that. An edgy teen who brags about hating the world. Dude, do yourself a favor and read your comments again after your 20th Birthday. You will have a good laugh about your cringy texts.

[@heretyk_1337]

Magnus Lööv - Exactly he is Joker and Hannibal Lecter rolled into one. He can be charming, crazy, goofy, or scary as hell. And he has one of the best proportions of villany needed in stories- he is competent, he is scary, he is dangerous, but he can be vunerable too... which makes him "human". It is one thing to fear, say, Sauron, who is a Lucifer in their world, and is just basically Evil incarnation- so you can hate him, or want to destroy him, or fear him, like you fear, i dunno, Storm or Lightning. No problem with that... But when villan is human- and i mean it as a sum total of our personalities` traits and potential of what we can become, not as a species- and he is so malevlolent, and at the same time... likable, or just fun to watch to actually being a little... sad?- that He lost... That is proper villan. One that makes you think Only one similar i can think of, at the top of my head would be Sheriff of Nottingham from "Prience of Thieves". Alan Rickman stole that movie, and was a blast to watch- there were moments when he killed his cousin, and you jut felt cold in your stomach, knowing this is a psychopath capable of anything, and then you have those little moments like he goes crazy and orders to "call off Christmas"... and you can`t help but laugh

[@lred1383]

@INTJ-Scorpio-Sigma-Male Oof, that's actually the edgiest thing i have seen in years.

[@CrisWoollacott]

I think that your reading of Landa is off base. His character is an opportunist who can exploit situations masterfully. In the opening scene he doesn't know that the family are in the house. He thinks that they are (perhaps had a tip off) but doesn't have any proof. The reason for the long conversation with the French farmer was to break him. If he knew that the Jews were in the house he'd just had them killed. There was no profit for him in talking to the farmer other than to find out if they were there. Landa's ability to react to situations quickly and he verbal aptitude allow for him to gain the upper hand. We know that he isn't an amazing physical threat - he is unable to hit Shosanna with a pistol shot as she runs away, Aldo head butting him show that he isn't an invincible bad guy. His threat is cerebral. Perhaps an evil Columbo/Poirot. The strudel scene is the opposite to the farmer scene. Again he doesn't 'know' he just suspects. He attempts to break Shosanna into confirming his suspicion. She doesn't break and of course his suspicion is (he thinks) unfounded. There is the implication that if he spent more time with her (perhaps if his suspicion was stronger) he would have eventually worn her down. He adaptability is hinted at first in the scene in the cinema. He sees through Aldo's rubbish disguise and immediately starts to form a plan to 'get out'. The final proof of his adaptability and ability to 'break' people through language and force of will is the conversation with Aldo and Utvich. Landa has to make himself appear like less of a Nazi monster and more of a man following his orders and doing his job no matter how distasteful. He knows that Aldo's team hate the Nazi's and he must distance himself from the Nazi's to secure their help in his escape. He knows that his reputation proceeds him particularly the 'Jew Hunter' nickname. So Landa does a very clever thing. He invents a nickname for Utvich. He calls him the little man. Up until this point there has been absolutely no hint of this nickname. We do know that the Basterds have nicknames (e.g. Bear Jew) by this one has never been mentioned. Neither Utvich nor Aldo has heard the nickname before. Landa creates this fiction to install in Aldo's (and Utvich's) mind that nicknames can be misleading or big exaggerations. It's been established in the first scene with the farmer that Landa revels in his nickname. Now he must pretend that he doesn't like it if he is to make a deal with Aldo. By planting the idea that nicknames can be far from reality (i.e. the small man isn't really small) he gives himself an excuse for his nickname. Sorry for the essay

[@RagingGoblin]

Fair. But your reading of his character is open to critique as well. I'm not attempting to break down his character, but I'd argue that certain villains very much strive to do things they don't stand to 'profit' from. Proving dominance over your victim and revelling in its misery is a rather typical motive for psychologically-themed antagonists (or anti-heroes). I'd say this is fairly in line with his ordering of milk for Shoshanna. He enjoys watching her struggle to cope. He enjoys her psychological torture. And he very much enjoys the feeling of superiority (also remember the show with his pipe). True, he's a thinking villain and not your average shouting-shooting bad guy, but he still very much represents the threat of the system he's perpetuating. Getting in Landa's way or attracting his ire is akin to a death sentence -- and that's what he enjoys, too. It's thanks to Waltz's character and his acting that we also see the other side of his character: a rather average, overenthusiastic, fussy little man -- someone you might meet whilst enjoying your Sunday afternoon Strudel, for example. I don't think we can say for certain if Landa likes his nickname or if he doesn't: one time he says he does, one time he says he doesn't. Both times, I'd argue, his bringing up of his moniker is part of the interrogation and thus not to be taken as bare truth. He certainly seems to revel in his role and the power of authority. In that sense, the shooting of his radio operator might also be seen in a different light: it's not exactly the loss of life of a fellow German he's scandalised about (or even the moral duplicity); it's the sense of powerlessness, which might have been the root of his actions from the very beginning. An authoritative, witty villain who enjoys dominating his victims and -- by a twist of character development -- is proven to be terrified of being victimised himself. A nerdy Nazi schoolyard bully.

[@boot_boy_6945]

I agree with the other responder about the strudel scene. I also think that it’s the same situation for the farm scene. He already knows the Jews are there, but he takes pleasure in breaking the man and making him forever know that he was too weak to save them.

[@mauve9266]

RagingGoblin so did Landa know that the girl was Shoshanna

[@RagingGoblin]

@@mauve9266 Hard to tell one way or the other. But if I had to take a guess, I'd say he strongly suspected.

[@bio-exorcist9949]

I don’t necessarily agree with you saying that Hans doesn’t shoot the young Shoshanna because he isn’t physically capable. If that was the case and he really wanted her dead, he could have just as easily ordered one of his men to shoot her. I think he didn’t shoot her for the same reason Hans does most of what he does throughout the film - power. He holds the lives of many people in his hands, and he enjoys having that power and security. When security of his life is threatened, he can switch sides but he still wants to be the one holding the upper hand. That’s why he didn’t shoot Shoshanna, because he wants to instill that thought in everyone’s minds, “I have the power over your life”

[@dewittbourchier7169]

The difference between Landa and Hellstrom is that Hellstrom is smug, officious, obnoxious. He may be well groomed, but his superior smile, his glibness, and his choice of a black SS uniform as opposed to Landa's more police/army field grey marks him out as someone who sees himself as completely above anyone he's talking to. He inspires, repulsion and impatience and this is made clear in the conversation. The other characters are as much afraid as they are annoyed with him. Landa on the other hand is gracious and polite. His smile is polite, sometimes even friendly. He's genuinely charming. He speaks to people as far as he can in their native language and tries to speak on them in terms they will understand and he dominates the situation by being polite. Since he's polite he introduces, subtly, the feeling of shame on people for thinking they should so quickly cut short an encounter with someone who is being so courteous - even though they really want to. Since Landa always interacts with people in ways that are familiar to them, or are complimentary of them, he also conveys already that he knows how they think and can empathize with their lived experiences. This only reinforces the idea that, knowing this, he already knows what they have done as he can in some sense 'get inside their head.' When Landa is speaking French to Lapadite and later Shoshanna his mannerisms switch from being more 'German' to being more French. Including the way he delivers compliments. This cultural sensitivity heightens the terror as the characters realise how completely he understands the 'mentality' - Does he therefore know already? It also shows they cannot get away with playing dumb with him. He knows them and respects them too well to fall for that. So how are they going to get out of it? They are starting to feel nervous and tense, and this is noticeable obviously and the victim knows it and then Landa slowly begins to peel away at it bit by bit until they crack.

[@253timeandtimeagain2]

Hellstrom wears the black uniform not by choice but because he's a Gestapo Major (Military Police).

[@sophieh.4097]

Dewitt Bourchier great insights

[@TonyNewJersey1]

@@253timeandtimeagain2 Gestapo mostly worked in plainclothes, so maybe it was a choice after all. And they didn't look that stereotypical, like in "Allo Allo" or "Hogan's Heroes". They were for the most part inconspicuous. And they were not everywhere like people think. For example the whole city of Düsseldorf, with over 500.000 inhabitants in 1939 had only some 30 full-time Gestapo-Agents working (and mostly for the whole province as well). The Gestapo mostly relied upon denunciations for their work. That, in my view made them all the more terrifying, as it could be anybody who gave them the reason for an investigation. And most were not die-hard nazis, but "normal" detectives with a sense of intellectual superiority. If a Gestapo-Agent was also in the SS, or if the nature of his work dictated, he would wear a Dienstuniform, like Landa. And judging from his uniform, Landa was a member of the SD (Sicherheitsdienst). The SD was the intelligence service of the Reich, like MI5 or the CIA today. It was also the parent organization of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo, "Security Police, which was composed of Gestapo and Kripo, the normal detective division). How do I know this? As a German-Austrian with some quite illustrious family history I like to be well informed. Though, thank god no member of my family was in the Gestapo, SD or Totenkopfstandarten (concentration camp staff), they were normal Waffen-SS Soldiers and Officers, and some paid with their lives for a flawed ideology. The SS as a whole was a very diverse organization with members equally as diverse, ranging from innocent and good-hearted soldiers to pure evil... And btw, the military police at the time was the Feldgendarmerie. Military intelligence was called the Geheime Feldpolizei. I hope this was helpful.

[@legionarulsquad6676]

@@TonyNewJersey1 you are very well informed sir.

[@TonyNewJersey1]

@@legionarulsquad6676 Thank you very much!

[@The-Artificer]

That's a bingo!

[@LunarPenguin42]

Col. Hans Landa Is that how you say it?

[@mrthompson3848]

silva geko References! How fun!

[@justin45789]

ooOoOooOOO tHaT’s A biNgO!!!!!1!!!

[@lauragraves4342]

You can just tell the man lives for those bingo moments. And those homicide moments. Probably because the former types lead to the latter ones.

[@sicarii545]

BiNgOo hOw FuN

[@nihilist1680]

I rank Christoph Waltz's Hans Landa and Heath Ledger's Joker as the best villain performances in the history of cinema.

[@jmlkhan5153]

Check out the private investigator from Blood Simple. M Emmet Walsh hit it out of the park in creating that villain.

[@ToxicTurtleIsMad]

Croc aaaah what a special snowflake you are...fucking douche

[@DrCanyonero]

Hans Landa is one of my favourites too by far, but I was extremely disappointed with Heath's Joker. It's good to see when peoples tastes aren't just because they like a certain type of villain.

[@stiltzkinvanserine5164]

I love Kevin Spacey's performance in Se7en, too!

[@sheboyganshovel5920]

Spacey, period. American Beauty, Usual Suspects, House of Cards...

[@zoogal09]

but the point of ordell in jackie brown was that he wasn't really threatening, he had a lot of insecurities and fears that prevented him from being like Hans Landa. He was a lot more human, and less of a monster than hans landa. so i feel like thats why he doesnt come off as too threatening. most of the characters in the film (especially the older ones) see through his facade.

[@MonstrousEthicist]

I figured Ordell wasn't threatening because, apart from Jackie Brown, he wasn't trying to threaten anyone I cared about. Also, he kept losing.

[@someguy4772]

Thank you.

[@uchidaoginome]

shutters I think Jackie Brown is Quentin Tarantino's best film and I believe it's because the characters are more flawed and therefore relatable. Even the movie itself lacks gimmicky touches like title cards like the "Bear Jew" graphic or the ultra-violence of the final scenes in IB. They're two different types of films with different types of villains. Ordell wasn't out to instill fear in anyone, even when he meant them harm. He clearly wasn't well-educated, certainly not ever a military officer and the stakes for Ordell are small and contained: Stay out of prison and retire to Mexico. Ordell's humor was just a natural trait. and his barbs weren't just for the benefit of the audience. In a couple of scenes he even made Jackie and Louis laugh. Not everyone has the same chances in life so unfortunately this aspect of his personality was to be used to put potential partners, rivals or victims at ease, throwing them of kilter, so he could make the deals or cut their throats. The point of the scene with Ordell and Beaumont wasn't to scare us. It was obvious from Beaumont's first call to Ordell's home that he was going to be killed. He's calling his gun-dealing boss on a land line to from jail. Ordell spends the next two scenes being affable and funny with the bail bondsman and with Beaumont but we know where this is going. The point was to establish his m.o., show us how Ordell works so we start to play the cat-and-mouse game with Jackie and, later, the cops. I often hear people analyzing films talk about "figuring it out." I knew the farmer was going to catch a bad one from the moment that Nazi walked into his property. There's a certain film language that's foreboding and isolates a character that's about to die. The opening of Inglorious Basterds had that in spades. I don't think any filmgoer was caught by surprise that a maudlin, taciturn farmer, working his land alone as a Nazi convoy rolled up on him with a smile he did not return was about to get got. If you were surprised, that's fine. I just think the point of these kinds of setups is to establish how the bad guys relate to the world but it isn't fair to make a direct comparison of Ordell to Hans because they have completely different views of the world and what they want to accomplish are in completely different scales. One wants to be an important officiant in a world leader's plans for mass genocide, a part of the pan in which he takes great joy, and global domination during the second World war; the other is willing to, but not necessarily out to, manipulate or kill his friends and co-workers to get his hands on a relatively small amount of illegally made cash so he can retire to Mexico where a person can live comfortably for years on such a small sum. So, again, I don't think a direct comparison works because all the characters and their contexts, as well as the filmmaker's intentions, are different.

[@cruxtymusic]

Yaaas

[@dirtydinner2432]

Uchida Oginome Jackie Brown definitely does the best job of developing characters compared to other Tarantino movies.

[@MiStABeNtLy64]

Another person who slept on the point of Jackie Brown. And doesn’t understand Robbie’s character. He wasn’t supposed to be a scary villain. If Tarantino wanted to build tension with Ordell, he would’ve. HOWEVER, that isn’t Ordell Robbie’s character. Ordell was scary in a different way, because he was so damn paranoid and he’d kill you if he feels like you are in the way of him making his million and leaving the business. He’d also charm and lie to you to catch you off guard. It worked with Beaumont, but didn’t work with Jackie because she was too sharp.

[@luiginastro8831]

Exactly

[@nickmayeux9828]

Chrisroph Waltz gave the most captivating, horrifying acting I've ever seen. Combine that with superb writing and cinematography and you have a real winner.

[@brettd530]

Hans Landa is one the greatest villains/characters ever. Flawless performance.

[@Dirtyboxer1]

It's up there with Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

[@gurgamous]

@@Dirtyboxer1 don't you mean bill clay?

[@Alientcp]

@@Dirtyboxer1 Not even close. There is a huge difference between a baddie that would kill for money from some one that just would kill. The number of people they kill is irrelevant (story wise). A perfect analogy is a dog attacking you because he wants food vs a dog attacking you just for the sake of it. The joker, Landa, even the guy from american X at the beginning, or any psycho that just kill for fun will always be more terrifying that a dude who wants money (story wise, in real life some one threatening to take your life will always be equally terrifying no matter the motive).

[@Dirtyboxer1]

@@Alientcp I disagree with you. What makes Gruber so terrifying is his combination of ruthlessness and urbanity. If Gruber were instead some Hollywood standard terrorist/villain (the original concept), then Die Hard doesn't work. It probably makes a few bucks on release, but we aren't still watching it 30 years later. A good villain complements the hero.

[@childeaterieatkidz4208]

@@Alientcp well in real life someone who wants money out of you and you give it to them you may have a chance of survival or even defending your self someone who just wants to kill for fun you dont have a chance at all so I think it goes the same way In story wise and real life a man who has nothing to lose is someone you should truly be afraid of

[@flame1154]

Whenever I see the the conversation between Lans and The remaining Basterds in the cinema foyer, I'm almost sure he knows right away. To me the laugh at the mountain climbing story is genuine as he just can't believe how poorly thought through the whole charade is. He lets them carry on because now he holds all the cards, the basterds have no choice but to carry out their mission if possible, and he has the unquestioning trust of the Nazi leadership. His reaction is mainly one of relief at seeing how much power has fallen into his lap,

[@curtiskretzer8898]

Do ya think he knew because he found the lipstick stained napkin w/her autograph @ the "La Louisianne"along w/her"stylish"shoe that was also left behind? Well!Would not that be some kind of stretching of the imagination?!

[@tekros8481]

Brilliantly said!

[@abimoreno7144]

So why he kills Bridget von Hammersmark?

[@IIIRobIII]

@@abimoreno7144 one less loose end to tie up for the writer and to remind the audience that he is evil. gotta have the man strangle a woman to death before he gets too likeable

[@glensomething2800]

whenever i see the toilet after i've used it i'm almost sure i shouldn't eat my shit. To me the shit is byproduct of myself and is something that shouldn't be eaten. My point is that was obvious as Curtis Kretzer said.

[@RedDeadSakharine]

Hans Landa is pretty much the only really terrifying movie villain I encountered as an adult. I remember seeing the movie for the first time and feeling my heart in my throat when he shows up at the dinner with Goebbels. The scene was terrifying, and the acting from Waltz and Mélanie Laurent was perfect. Waltz intimidated you, while Laurent drew you into her fear. Sure, I've seen suspensefull and angst-inducing movies, but it's almost always situational fear. Making you afraid of a character, now that's truely Oscar-worthy!

[@raf3444]

What about Anton Chigurh?

[@SageofSorrow]

Ford Perfect man i can here to comment just that lol. Anton was fucking terrifying

[@bobdole4916]

@@SageofSorrow Especially when there's real world equivalents of what he is, like Richard Kuklinski - the iceman.

[@ssxldnxm9512]

Regardless of the sides, I sympathized with Landa more, perhaps because I appreciate his wits, and I thought for the longest time that Aldo was the villan due to his cruelty. We don't really see how cruel the nazis were in the movie.

[@bobdole4916]

@@ssxldnxm9512 He chokes a women to death with his bare hands. He also equates human beings to rats and then almost casually has them slaughtered in the opening of the film. How did you miss that cruelty?

[@planktonfun1]

He's unpredictable like heath ledgers joker. unpredictability is terrifying.

[@cearfarseer9725]

'The oldest fear of man is fear of the unknown' paraphrasing H.P Lovecraft.

[@Locadel2003]

You never seen ze pequegno in city of god. That was unpredictable and truly terrifying

[@larryolive4829]

I am a villain then

[@larryolive4829]

honestly my mum is a Sagittarius sun, moon and rising thus she is the most unpredictable and thus the biggest villain

[@Boro_MuayThai]

*big grin on his face* “tHaTs A BinGo” very terrifying

[@jakehickox8928]

Personally, I think that Hans knew who Shosanna was and he revealed it in their scene together. When ordering the strudel, he orders Shosanna a glass of milk, much like he ordered for himself on the dairy farm in the first scene. He does this to subtly hint that he knows exactly who she is.

[@c477um11]

Yeah this was a pretty glaring reveal and it was well done in the film so thinking that this guy couldn't tell if he knew or not makes me wonder how insightful he really is with the rest of the video.

[@MatureManure]

c477um11 well you could also argue that the fact that lada is ordering a glass of milk is just suppossed to start this train of thought and therefor completing/enforcing the "does hans landa know?" question. In fact you can not really know for sure if he knew or not, you can always interpret that he knows but it is never actually revealed to the audience

[@polarweis]

jake hickox he did not know. In the scipt it says it is to seem like landa can read other people minds. It happens in all over the movie.

[@lemonaids6559]

jake hickox Landa knew from the ordering of the milk to the cigarette being put out in the dessert. The milk symbolises the event which happened before although the cigarette is the interesting part. I believe it signifies the fact that she is the dessert and Landa is the cigarette Shosanna’s look gives away the fact that she picks this up and thinks that the gig is up but Landa just walks away. It shows that Landa has all the power in the situation and over Shosanna right until the end.

[@dmqproductions1482]

jake hickox Also, more importantly, he doesn’t order the cream as in Jewish culture, eating cooked dairy with raw dairy is not kosher. He is testing what she would do.

[@connorvaughn7968]

Tarantino needs to direct a Wolfenstein movie.

[@slenderboygraveman6437]

Connor Vaughn and cast that guy who played Hugo Stieglitz as BJ Blazcowitz

[@threethrushes]

Mein Leben!

[@Luke-xi2pq]

I was just recently replaying the modern Wolfenstein games and I instantly wanted to re-watch Inglorious Bastards afterwards, both of the amazing pieces of art give such similar vibes in alternate historical timelines that I defiantly would love a Wolfenstein Tarantino film!

[@ChrisZukowski88]

@@slenderboygraveman6437 Hugo Stieglitz would totally rock the BJ role! The similarities are uncanny.

[@heyitslewi1599]

Krzysztof Zukowski they Modeled BJ after him

[@guicaldo7164]

Another thing that makes a villain terrifying is when the hero simply isn't able to win against him the way he does with the others. Example: Joker, from The Dark Knight. The interrogation scene. Batman's main weapon is always violence. He may have trouble scoring a hit against his opponent, but once he beats the shit out of them, they're done. He won. But then he starts beating the Joker.. and the Joker _laughs_. No matter how hard Batman hits him, the Joker is still in control. Batman is just helpless, even though he by all rights should have the villain at his mercy. It's his helplessness that transfers to the audience and thus makes the Joker terrifying.

[@petemadrona2252]

Kinda like how Ramsay didn't give a shit when Jon had already done him real good and bloody in the Battle of the Bastards. It's like the villain's so fucking confident that they have a way out, and that they'll ALWAYS have a way out.

[@guicaldo7164]

That, too. You get the feeling that, whatever happens, the villain always has the upper hand.

[@Schmidtelpunkt]

The Battle of the Bastards is just a weird mixture of tropes and plot armour. I don't think GoT can be mentioned in this context, as the show has become very uneven. Lining up trope after trope does not really create tension, even if some of the tropes derive from the show itself.

[@nyazillagojira7079]

your reference to Joker in Dark Knight i think was so totally on. Even the Joker mentions it in a stereotypical "This is an exposition scene". The laughing at Batman while get a mudhole stomped in him shows Batman's limits. Something the Joker is well aware of as such what else can you do to me mentality. On the Other hand "This is what i can do to you". Batman has 1 rule, and the Joker says "That is the Rule you will have to break" to win.

[@frankman2]

Well yeah. Actually the Joker explicity spells it out for us in case anyone misses it "Even with all your strength, you've got nothing to threaten me with"

[@BraindeadCRY]

"Does Hans Lander know?" The answer to this is always yes. Even when he doesn't know, he knows.

[@okie9025]

"Hans Landar" Ariverderchi.

[@midenking9651]

@@okie9025 Hans Landa....🙄

[@EoinFC]

Does he know how to spell "Hans LANDA"? I guess he does.

[@AlcibiadesMD]

Hans Landa! Bon journo!...Aldo

[@lukeh2440]

They way he shifts from happy/neutral to serious/evil with subtle shifts of his eye muscles is amazing

[@CamryLong]

Christoph Waltz deserved that Oscar. In fact, he deserved both of them.

[@ludite5000]

You are comparing two scenes that have different purposes when you compare the Dreyfus massacre to the death of Beaumont Livingston. The Giant buildup in Basterds is an brilliant exercise in tension building. The build up to the trunk murder is all about showing how casually Ordell Robbie kills, and it's largely a comedic scene. Ordell doesn't give a shit. He's sly and sleazy and talks his friend into getting into that trunk and drives him 100 yards away and caps him without any fuss. Sam Jackson's character is not meant to be the same kind of villain. Landa is an operatic, larger than life, brilliant Nazi-detective. Ordell Robbie is just a gun runner. He's not supposed to be that kind of villain, he's supposed to be a bit bumbling. He's only scary because of his willingness to kill without a second thought if it get's him out of a jam, but he's not that imposing of an antagonist. You even used a scene that is clearly designed to show how he's not that smart, not that imposing, not that bad ass of a villain. A middle aged woman gets the drop on him and totally emasculates him, and you show this and claim it's a failure in villain building. It's a success in villain declawing! That's the point! I can't believe you look at a scene where Nazis unload machine guns into a Jewish family while a booming orchestral score plays and give it credit for being scarier than one where a man you cannot see is shot twice, the camera a football field away, in the brief pause of a 70's soul song that you can barely hear as it's played from that car in the distance. Chicken and Waffles does not fail to be as strudeleque as strudel, it just isn't strudle and it was never trying to be. It's chicken and waffles, and it's perfect.

[@plasticwrapcharlie]

THANK YOU

[@stanislavgalev9458]

I agree with you 100%.This guy's explanation is very good don't get me wrong the video is entertaining and a bit informative but as you said only because the scenes were somewhat alike it doesn't mean that Tarantino's goal was to make the villains the same.Hans Landa was meant to be one kind of villain and Audeo Roby another.I don't think that was a failure.I think it was just a difference in the desire of a villain build.

[@plasticwrapcharlie]

is there a way to favorite a comment? cuz that comment was just as delicious the second time around.

[@iskenderosmoev646]

Just, like, WOW!!!

[@Ashkhael]

Well said

[@Scarecrow545]

2:28- the masterfully crafted tension AND Christoph Waltz's 'most intimidating deathstare of all time' award.

[@mikedangerdoes]

I think that's a pretty unfair treatment of Ordel in Jackie Brown. The two scenes may be superficially similar, but they aren't the same characters and aren't trying to illicit the same reactions. We aren't trying to establish Ordel as some sort of supernatural, omnipotent bogeyman for an Evil Empire. He's just a hustler trying to make a score. And if anything the point is to show that he can't be trusted and that he will go to desperate lengths to protect himself and his investments.

[@peterrankin3465]

Yeah totally the casual vibe is kinda the point.

[@sixfoursoul2538]

@@peterrankin3465 Agreed I have no I dea why he is doubling down on this reference they are not suppoesed to be the same..

[@leob4403]

Exactly, I wrote a similar comment before I saw your comment

[@killerkitten7534]

The scene where he’s at lunch with the one Jewish lady has to be the most tense scene for me. The moment he brought up the milk it just scared the hell out of me on my first watch through. It really shows the threatening power of the villain, and the amazing writing when something as simple as what looks like a lunch conversation to be a seemingly life or death situation

[@dbf4215]

Au Revoir Shoshanna!! I think her reaction to him was an outstanding piece of acting and bolstered his villainy.

[@xBieux]

Q U A L I T Y

[@TheStormtrooper00]

Trumps good enough

[@bearship9]

S Y N C H R O N Y

[@ZeroHBRPro]

Bernardo Mazonave hue

[@blahblahblahblahbla2705]

O P I N I O N

[@Pedrojerico]

Q U A L I N Y AND S Y N C H R O T Y

[@danhanley5618]

How to make a good villain? Get a good actor You can make great film with a great villain but unless you have a good actor that can give a convincing performance then it's all for naught

[@Torthrodhel]

Also has to be a good villain though, the actor's just one vital element. You need the other vital elements too. Contrast Inglorious Basterds with Spectre for a perfect example of this. Same actor, worlds difference in end result.

[@Bokto1]

Darth Vader.

[@nyazillagojira7079]

A pile of feces covered in roses is still a pile of feces. Unless you have and actual STORY then the Actor no matter who they are can only do so much with what they are given.

[@chopsuey--]

The writing has to back up the actor too. Heath ledger's joker never would've been so good if the writers didn't do his character justice. Same goes for Hans Landa.

[@beddrunk]

I agree but that's just a cherry on cake. An actor can bring brilliant performance but if they have nothing to work with, they'll sink with their movie. The best example I can think of at the moment is Tom Cruise in Mummy, though he wasn't the villain in it. I'd say he did a spectacular performance but the writing and plot sucks. I mean, give Heath Ledger the role of Joker in Suicide Squad and I bet he'll suck.

[@tylershep4220]

My only real problem with the character of Hans Landa is how he ultimately goes down. It seems out of character when he suddenly trusts the Basterds to safely deliver him to America with the false title of war hero. At this point he holds no cards--Hitler and the rest of the German command are dead, and he's well aware of what Aldo does to Nazis, no matter what they have done in order to help him (pointing out locations to Nazi patrols on maps, as shown earlier in the movie). Throughout the whole movie he's one step ahead and has a plan, but at the end he literally gives his weapon to the enemy and allows himself to be handcuffed by people who are notorious for carving swastikas into the foreheads of people like him. And this happens seemingly out of nowhere. Still a great movie, but I can't help but feel Landa's ultimate downfall was rushed and poorly planned.

[@mauve9266]

That’s what I thought when I watched it. It didn’t seem plausible that this seemingly criminal mastermind would just “surrender” in that way with no back up plan no other deal in place, no nothing. it’s was a bit anticlimactic in regards to his character like “oh really you’re gonna go down like that?”

[@will2win95]

But the Nazis that were 'let go' never divulged the real reason why their life was spared. If they said it was for helping the enemy by giving them information they would be killed.

[@JohnSmithPlaysGames]

He never even considered that Aldo would have so much of a chip on his shoulder about the whole "deal"/end-scenario that he would actually scar Landas head or even so much as punch him. He thought the deal gave him complete immunity to his actions as an SS officer, starting from the moment he made it. Plus I don't see anything to otherwise imply that Landa didn't actually get his part of the deal? Aldo was pretty content with him fucking off to his private land and living in luxury after the war so long as he had a big reminder carved into his forehead. Same with any Nazi in the film really, except obviously he would kill any of them that he didn't need for a purpose (like delivering a message to the fuhre).

[@Visplight]

He was too used to being in control of everything, and too used to only working with soldiers that followed orders precisely. He misread Aldo's character.

[@treblemaker]

I think he realized from early on that he had no better options. The war was coming to an end and he knew it. He makes this clear several times in his chats with Pitt. He knew he would not come out of the situation intact, especially with his reputation as Jew hunter. Throughout the whole theater premiere part of the movie, he had numerous occasions to thwart the Americans' plot. Instead, he was calculating his own exit strategy knowing full well that he would be crucified sooner or later. (The interesting thing is that he murders Bridget Von Hammersmark for her betrayal, and then himself betrays his own leaders). Had Hans thought that the nazis would win the war, he would have put a swift end to the American assassination plot at the very beginning. Hans is in it for himself and no one else. This was his golden opportunity to escape death, as he would surely have been tried as a war criminal.

[@jaydee4861]

Being a Nazi is a one way ticket to villainy JoJo Rabbit: allow me to introduce myself

[@ХристоМартунковграфЛозенски]

John Rabe: I beg to differ!

[@mollof7893]

Also Stroheim from JoJo's bizarre adventure.

[@IgorRockt]

Cpl. Rolf Steiner: allow me to introduce myself.

[@TheCSJones]

The whole point of that movie was that all the sympathetic characters secretly weren't real Nazis, though...

[@BadWebDiver]

Oskar Schindler would like a word...

[@Calhundus]

Nothing went wrong in Jackie Brown - it WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE SCARY.

[@JordanMgordan]

I was with ya until you started misreading Jackie Brown

[@plasticwrapcharlie]

word.

[@KutWrite]

+VenomShock: Do you mind saying how he misread it?

[@darkdork78]

KutWrite it's mostly about intentions. The language used in this analysis, that of Jackson's character failing when compared to Landa, can be seen as being misleading or disingenuous because the intended character type of Ordell is not in the same category of villain as Landa.

[@izqooo]

Lol yup

[@iPSLee]

​@@KutWrite Ordell was not meant to be a terrifying character. He's being tailed by the cops, his money is not in his hands. There are simply no reasons for a character like him to be terrifying. Also, the Chris Rock murder scene wasn't supposed to surprise the audience, it wants people to observe Ordell's manipulation skill and his cold-bloodness; gradually taking his time preparing everything step by step, making no mistake, it shows that he has had some experience in this action. The silent follows by two gunshot really isn't suppose to surprise any people, matter of fact some may find it funny when Chris Rock yells out of the trunk and gets shut down. It don't matter what you feel because the scene doesn't want you to feel a certain way, it just wants you to watch the story, as real as it is, in real time, with real people and real reactions. And then you decide your emotions.

[@blogofbooksandmovies109]

9:06 this is precisely when I knew Waltz would win the Oscar. Everytime I watch it, it scares the balls out of me...

[@YouTube-tied]

When he puts his cigarette out in the strudel, that's always struck me as a perfect example of his casually wicked disdain for niceties. The beautiful presentation of the strudel ("wait for the cream") and how he wolfs it down, then using it as an ashtray. I was a heavy smoker for 30 years and never once put a smoke out in food. He gets off on being a wicked man.

[@josephgoggin5632]

Very insightful. I’ve always been strangely intrigued by that shot, but I’ve never been able to put into words why. That makes perfect sense.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

@@josephgoggin5632 Hansa's cigarette in the strudel is a metaphor for his willingness to violate the veneer of elegance and delicacy

[@greyfoxninja1239]

The half eaten strudel with the cigarette looks like the cabin from the beginning of the film. The cigarette is the chimney. Tarantino held the shot for this.

[@smarterthananatheist]

In the strudel scene did Landa remember her after four years? I say Landa knew who Shosanna was. It was four years later the war was ending, his side had lost and retribution was coming. Landa needed the basterds to achieve their plan. It would be stupid to kill this young woman because he knew they needed her cinema to achieve their goal of killing the whole high command, and so it became his purpose too. The milk and cream was him telling her he knew. Landa saying he can’t remember what he was going to ask was just a polite way of withdrawing himself from the scene, which at earlier times in the war would never have happened and she would surely have been arrested and shot. He was playing the long game to survive the war but like a cat with a mouse he was simply playing with her showing his absolute power over her. This scene was the most terrifying because there was absolutely no violence, just courtesy and the best of manners, he even kissed her hand and a Nazi would never had done that to a Jew. Remember his reference to them as rats at the farm interrogation and how a person would react to them if we saw one enter the house? We wouldn’t kiss it and treat it as a guest. For Landa the war had ended and like a true rat he needed to leave the sinking ship and he was prepared to do anything. He was a true villain. So in the strudel scene, did he know? Absolutely! Landa knew, she knew, we knew and the rest of them did not. That is scary.

[@zolikoff]

Hans Landa is the hero of Inglourious Basterds, since he's the one who completes the mission and wins the war for the allies.

[@Zarastro54]

But the theater still would have burned down due to Shoshanna's plot.

[@BoopSnoot]

Exactly, Hans Landa did nothing wrong.

[@TheSpoon369]

@@Zarastro54 i bet Hitler could of got away though if the 2 bastards couldn't get to the balcony. So Hans has that as an advantage i doubt he cared about the others in the lower level

[@ExDee]

@@Zarastro54 No it wouldn't have. Landa had the oppurunity to capture Shoshanna when he saw her for the second time but he decided not to because he knew that she was up to something.

[@jimchumley6568]

zolikoff So good to know this isnt reality but evil can be used to bring about good.

[@lomax343]

6:28 Of course Landa knows who Shoshanna is. He tells her as much when he orders a glass of milk for her.

[@GAMEINC2013]

thank god I found your comment. It´s obvious he knows it. Like you said he ordered milk for her.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

Landa has no idea who Shoshanna is. The milk is a coincidence

[@lomax343]

@@dkizxpt-su3ze If that's true, the milk serves no function whatsoever, which would be sub-par film-making. You don't put a "coincidence" in the script unless it's not really a coincidence. Tarantino would never make such a stupid error - therefore the milk is a tell.

[@dkizxpt-su3ze]

@@lomax343 They're at a restaurant, she needs something to drink, the order just happened to be milk It was a random choice Not everything has to be a code you know

[@lomax343]

@@dkizxpt-su3ze "Not everything has to be a code." Yes it does, if you're a decent film-maker.

[@thegovernment0usa]

You said "Jackie Brown" failed in its attempt to make Ordell Robbie a scary villain and I think you missed the mark. I just don't think he was supposed to be scary. Now maybe that's because I've seen "Jackie Brown" so many times and don't think of him as scary--maybe if I watch the movie again through that lens, I'll come out on the other side, agreeing with you. To me, he's not a "great villain" because he's so great at villainy, but I love him right where he is and exactly who he is. He thinks he's a frightening person; he thinks everybody is intimidated by him. He's definitely not somebody you want to get the better of you, but he thinks he's smarter than he is--and they establish that fairly clearly a few different times throughout the movie. Nobody treats him with much respect... unless they're afraid of him or trying to manipulate him. The scene where Jackie points a gun at his dick. Louis fucks Melanie even though he thinks she's Ordell's girlfriend. Just about everything Melanie does suggests a lack of respect for Ordell. Max Cherry seems like he's only in the movie to undermine Ordell. He's also the person who seems to treat Ordell with the greatest amount of caution, but I think of everyone in the movie Max has the lowest opinion of Ordell (although that honor may go to Melanie). He's a garden variety psychopath with access to guns and moderate wealth. He looks out for himself, but he has obvious failings. Hans Landa, on the other hand, is an exceptional psychopath; a linguistic genius with a keen mind and the authority of a colonel in the SS. Ordell Robbie's shortcomings and failures are intentional aspects of the character, not failures on the part of the filmmakers.

[@gittyupalice96]

Does Hans Landa know you stayed up watching youtube instead of doing your homework?

[@not_salty_at_all7434]

He does

[@blackshirts_and_breads]

"You are staying up late watching KZbin, are you not?"

[@jondaniels4325]

"Point out to me the supposed finished work"

[@Radb707]

You forgot that Jackie Brown was an adaptation of a book. That's someone else's material. Quentin Tarantino didn't create Ordel Robbie. While he could have played the scene anyway he wants, the point of the scene is to establish Ordel is a liar and a murderer and you will believe he'll kill Jackie no matter what he says. It fits in the story....but it's not Tarantino's story. Haven't seen any comments pointing this out.

[@Visplight]

Because it's not relevant. Tarantino still could have set up the scenes in ways that built tension and added flavor to the character.

[@Radb707]

@@Visplight it's not like he did a bad job, you're just not meant to see Ordel the same way you see the nazi. He's not Anton Shugure. He's a drug dealer with style. He didn't have to monologue him to death. He convinced him he wasn't mad, convinced him to get in the trunk and then killed him without even saying a word. He's a completely different person. The scene is played for dark humor which fits Elmore Leonard and fits the movie. Now if Tarantino didn't respect Elmore Leonard then sure...but if he did respect him, why not try to make a good adaptation vs making his own movie.

[@dexterous5892]

I'm not quite sure of your analysis. To me, the Ordell scene was intended to show how casual of an act murdering Beaumont was to him. Thus, instead of showing great suspense and drama, he only chats him up and leads him to his car. After this, nothing is certain as any moment could be leading up to a death of a main-ish character, which is the exact way the "I told you to stop talking"-scene plays out.

[@jonathansteadman7935]

Hans Landa played by Christophe Waltz is my favourite villain of all time. 'It's a Bingo'!

[@mrno.7366]

The funny thing is that he was married to a Jewish lady an orthodox jew who live today in Israel with their children who are also orthodox Yes 😂 He is so good

[@Fang0v3rFang]

I think he knew who she was, because he ordered her a meal that was made with pigs fat and Jewish people weren't allowed to eat pig, he ordered her a glass of milk, and he offered her a cigarette like how he asked if he could smoke his pipe. Plus everyone he interrogated in the film is "guilty."

[@lauragraves4342]

👏👏🤯🤯 wow. Either he knows already or hes trying to catch hints from her reactions.

[@skaruts]

*Lt. Aldo Raine:* _"Rivaderrtche!"_ *Also Lt. Aldo Raine:* _"Does Landa know?"_

[@5ivey]

1:17 gave me chills.

[@Krisk236]

I literally lose my breath whenever that scene plays. The music is so tense on top of everything else

[@adrianp972]

I think he does know who she is. He specifically orders a glass of milk for her. That’s a dead giveaway.

[@nicholasdoran]

Christoph Waltz is a terrific actor.

[@LBNMKRS]

Hans "Bad Mothafucka" Landa

[@beatnathan]

great analysis on Hans but I don't think Tarantino necessarily "failed" to make Ordell terrifying, as others in the comments have noticed. Ordell's character is intimidating and has authority and is capable of doing bad shit, but he often doesn't get what he wants and gets screwed over. That scene is more comedic than the opening scene in Inglorious Basterds. Robert De Niro's character in Jackie Brown is kind of terrifying though, in my opinion. The way he is completely laid back throughout most of the movie but does a 180 when the tense handoff gets made just gets built up. His little and held back mannerisms of something like threatening to punch Melanie in the store and almost desperate plea for her to not say one more word is incredibly tense. And he acts almost psychopathic when he still talks to her after shooting her to tell him that he was right about where the car was parked.

[@teamhex]

Landa is the ultimate real world styled villain. He speaks many languages, he's extremely smart, and he has zero feelings about doing his "job". It really adds to how scary and dangerous he is.

[@keithmorgan7704]

Hans Landa is the best ( worst! ) film Nazi of all time. The amazing thing is that Tarantino only made it through grade eight, yet he is the greatest writer of dialogue since Shakespeare. When I look at a Tarantino interview, and I hear how he speaks, I have a huge disconnect that this entertaining doofus commands the English language like Eisenhower commanded D-Day.

[@xX_swagger_Xx]

"When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them: No, I went to films." - Quentin Tarantino

[@michaelsurridge8328]

It has to be Hans Landa or Amon Goeth in Schindler's list but I think Goeth beats Landa because he was a real person and not fictitious.

[@ArtofLunatik]

his dialogue in death proof was awful, thats the only film hes done that I just completely dislike.

[@ReynaldoJAbreuR74]

I disagree. Shakespeare's dialogues are dated simply because the language is archaic and many expressions and words are no longer in use. However, the themes and wits are very modern - his double entendres are flawless even today. Consider this fragement from the "Taming of the shrew": Petruchio. Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherina. If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio. My remedy is then to pluck it out. Katherina. Ay, if the fool could find it where it lies. Petruchio. Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherina. In his tongue. Petruchio. Whose tongue? Katherina. Yours, if you talk of tales; and so farewell. Petruchio. What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman. An obvious innuendo joke. There are some sites and books that translate his works to modern english - maybe your experience can be improved.

[@kantyran6449]

Keith Morgan I like tarantino films. But I really don't think he is such a great dialogue writer. His films are weird... honestly. Kill Bill, hatefull eight. Just really weird though entertaining. Django unchained and inglorious basterds are kind of odd ones considering his other movies. I never liked the movies for the dialogues but for the unusual feel they provide

[@TheCollector-f4o]

Take a shot every time he says Hans Landa.

[@bkmixups1796]

Y would u be drinking and watching this get a gurl man

[@lauragraves4342]

But lans handa is said so few times I'm not as think as u drunk I am. 🥳🤢🤮😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴😴 What???? Oh yeah, sorry.... yes.

[@Hicomrade123]

Actually hand landa is a great detective. He never lets ideologies get in the way of his investigations, and uses clues to solve mysteries. He could easily do anything to anyone, but he chooses to do it the hard way

[@Boemel]

Waltz made this movie, and i find this one of the best movies ever.

[@carloscinemacorner3182]

With Ordell you don’t need tension. The whole movie is just them interacting with each other and us watching. We are hanging out with them.

[@josephgoggin5632]

Carlos Saravia exactly!! Jackie Brown is just a movie about hanging out. The heist storyline is mostly a framework.

[@adhiandhika4936]

#DoesHansLandaKnows?

[@12345balla12345]

Adhi Andhika He knew.

[@links-gut-versifftergrunme1809]

1:37 _"Let's talk about the large anti-semitic elephant in the room."_ My brain: *Here, have a picture of an elephant in Afrikakorps uniform nazi saluting Rommel with it's trunk* Me: Thank you brain. I will never forgett this picture for the rest of my life.

[@JonnyV88]

You seem to think Tarantino was going for the same effect with Jackson’s character. I don’t know why.

[@mingonmongo1]

I didn't get that. He was simply illustrating why some villains are scarier than others, and comparing two different villains from the same director illustrates that well.

[@beerkenstein]

I love how the cheerful mood of Christoph Walz makes him look like a nice fellow like in Jango Unchained, or a terrifying psychopath like in Inglorious Basderds.

[@TacoVeldstraGrutte]

The beginning scene in Inglorous Bastards...Cristoph as the colonel...is so impressive! How nice he speaks how cruel he is! This is the greatest scene I have ever seen!

[@holyfreak8]

There´s another layer in the cafe scene. The strudel is a pie that has some pig fat on it. And the creamis made of milk. Remember that jewis don´t eat pork and that the don´t eat dairy products with meat and it derivates. So, making Shoshanna eat that strudel pie with cream wa the "test" to kno if she was jewish.

[@TonyNewJersey1]

I'm sorry to feel the need of having to correct you, but I've never seen Strudel made with pig fat. My family is German and Austrian, from the heartland of the Strudel if you want. It is made with butter, and lots of it. Using lard would give it a bad taste, even my great-grandmother (born in 1914) always insisted on only using butter, or Butterschmalz (clarified butter). And as a test, this wouldn't be reliable. I think that a jew, in the middle of the Holocaust would eat anything if he was sitting at the table with a colonel from the SS.

[@dewitdesigns4884]

@Evalation I don't see it as a test but more of a torment

[@herschelschueler]

Waltz's change of facial expression from neutral to displeased when he says that the farmer has The Dreyfus Family under his floorboards is the biggest reason why Landa works and still brings shivers down my spine.

[@nightbreed9305]

Here's my favorite movie villains ever: 10. Thanos: (Avenger's: Infinity War) 9. Agent Smith: (The Matrix) 8. Joker: (Pretty much all the good portrayals and none of the bad ones like Leto) 7. Little Bill: (Unforgiven) 6. Walter E. Kurtz: (Apocalypse Now) 5. Mr. Glass: (Unbreakable) 4. The Alpha: (The Grey) 3. Hans Landa: (Inglorious Basterds ) 2. Anton Chigar: (No Country For Old Men) 1. Hal 9000: (2001: A Space Odyssey) I feel like all of these have the elements this video talks of, well Landa does obviously because he's the subject, but I couldn't not include him.

[@44x2like]

The best film debut ever. A one of a kind masterful powerful performance.

[@jbain4750]

ok, who dafuq is the one edgy potato who disliked this?

[@Glitchoone]

J BAIN it's now 18 edgy potatoes

[@jbain4750]

Grrrr. Friggen starchy vegetables.

[@blahblahblahblahbla2705]

Hans was an amazing person.

[@Samuelgracie22]

Does Hans Landa know?

[@JonatasAdoM]

People who think otherwise. Same thing goes for the CGI video someone made a log time ago, people will refuse to agree with him and dislike it

[@nitemare507]

Love all of Quentin's films, but Inglorious Bastards is by far my favourite. Christopher Waltz is who made that movie. He absolutely steals every scene he is in! Next to the Joker in the Dark Knight. Hans is by far & away my favourite villain! My 3rd is Anton Chigurh!

[@Xerclipse]

Yeah I never remembered Ordel as a villain, just as a guy who has a gang going dysfunctional and has to clean up the mess. He is a great character with the best actor who pulled off an AMAZING job. I found him to be antagonistic and deceptive more than the intimidating villain. I think Ordel's character works because he is supposed to sound like a guy you want to have a chat in the bar with, but will hide your body in the middle of nowhere. He smooth talks you like the devil until you meet your fate. Someone like that is dangerous and can be a great villain. Just not scary like Darth Vader.

[@KutWrite]

+Xerclipse: Yes. Jackson does a similar job in an earlier movie, "Hard Eight." As in Jackie Brown, the whole movie is a slow build-up as the characters do their thing, pursue their goals, which lead to a confrontation. Both movies' protagonists also show flaws and weaknesses and must deal with other problems, yet not lose sight of their final goals. Sidney, in "Hard Eight" is as powerful, yet flawed, as Jackie Brown is; also as interesting and, in movie terms, "good."

[@ethanha252]

I remember watching that first scene with him talking to the milk farmer. Holy crap. It is such an amazing scene.

[@cindyduncan2467]

You had me at Christoph Waltz

[@permafrosty]

You had me at facepissing kink Cindy

[@cindyduncan7049]

@@permafrosty what???

[@shadowrealmcitizen1149]

I love how the music synch with shots perfectly. Amazing editing man :)

[@sarasteinberg2905]

Woman. Sally Menke.

[@benwilliams3539]

''I can think like a jew'' that's the really terrifying part.

[@PaulieD1984]

Spot on. What sick bastard wants to be able to think like a jew?

[@mythinktube]

@@PaulieD1984 haha

[@Ragitsu]

@@PaulieD1984 Piss off, Himmler.

[@ynog0978]

@@Ragitsu it's just a metafor chill

[@Ccirgrg]

@@ynog0978 meta for what?

[@appledough3843]

6:51 "Oscar and Penelope Uber bingo." Did I hear that right?

[@fletchermaxwell]

Penelope Cruz won the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role the year before, so she presented it to him.

[@sadieokeefe2937]

Hans Landa is the backbone of this movie, he truly completes it. Without his incredible acting I doubt I would love Inglorious basterds as much as I do.

[@jaidevtyagi1033]

Anton Chigurh is the most terrifying villian ever. Seems so realistic especially in the scene with the old Shop owner. Damn would never wanna meet someone like that....

[@MightyMeg]

Spiderman Homecoming did the same thing! When Peter found out who the Vulture was, when he was alone with him, in the car, by himself, we were all thinking the same thing as Peter, "Does he know?" Did he know Peter was Spirder-Man? Would he kill a 15 year old? How far would the Vulture go? That scene, and the Washington Memorial scene was marvelous and intense.

[@macabreenterprise1823]

As soon as Vulture knew, he told spiderman. So it doesn't really apply. What was terrifying in that scene was, "Will he find out? Will he put it together?"

[@ajwithnoname5527]

Not just, but not a lot of harm was gonna befall anyone in that movie.

[@steelbear2063]

Lol no, Thanos is the only incredible villain of MCU. Rest are not even good. Although I love the monolog about time and death being humiliating in Dr. Strange

[@SandorSoptei]

Did you just compare a shitty spiderman movie to this masterpiece?

[@babyfacekillah1323]

God....Hans Landa is so cool

[@Jacob-wh8nh]

Wrestling Bushi I wish I could be like him 👄👄👄❤❤❤❤

[@curtiskretzer8898]

He has nothing to sweat,as he is a"colonel die Schutzstaffel",until the boy Hermann gets ventil8d & scalped! Then cool goes rite out the truck door & off n2 the woods. & the NAZIs weren't "cool",as Lt.Raine explains to his captive audience of would be heroes,after the dairy farm massacre

[@kasnijhuis676]

Guide to making a good villain: -Make him drink milk.

[@Blobby3822]

You guys got any milk?

[@HerrKarliseppel]

What a shame that Christoph Waltz isn`t come to Hollywood earlier but in his 50s. Such a good actor...

[@archiehowlison7512]

Hans genuinely made me have a dream that I was hiding Jews and he was hunting me. Terrifying

[@GrammeStudio]

To be honest, I find Anton from No Country for Old Men more terrifying, if not the most terrifying villain. The feeling is more visceral rather than cognitive. It's not that he makes you think he has terrifying traits like Hans Lada does, but rather he makes you FEEL that he has terrifying traits. From the way he looks and mostly because the way he looks, to the way he talks and behaves, it's almost like he isn't human and i think that's closer to a description. It's like he's something sinister wearing a human skin. Meanwhile Hans Landa can seem human sometimes, and even seem like a friend on one occasion or two which would make his preys relax a little. One might be able to force a giggle with Landa, but pretty much impossible with Anton. His presence would simply paralyze his preys with fear. but you definitely strike a point about Hans Landa's omniscience. He seems to be able to just accurately deduce an information out of the most subtle clue like Sherlock can but in the real world, the best that genius can do is probably stereotype. A clue can mean a wide array of things.

[@erikahl7934]

I actually admire landa he is smart and extremely clever i Do not like his actions but i admire his mind

[@bustywaifus]

He was more likable than the americans, very good acting.

[@jasoncase9481]

Thanks for making this great video.You could make a video of how to make a multiple pov story.That way there is no doubt we know the Villain's pov but still it's undeniable he or she is in thr wrong and is a Black hat or a villain.

[@FormingFilm]

Jason Case Good idea, I'll keep that in mind!

[@jasoncase9481]

Forming Film Your welcome. Also I'm going to be making videos including about this and other entertainment related topics.

[@leebee5361]

Different movie.. different type of villain.. I see no 'failure' whatsoever...

[@mehulsharma7918]

His best attribute is being charming in the most terrifying and assertive way possible.

[@skylervanderpool3522]

Not a one way ticket to... villainville?

[@rickewilde]

Omg. When I first watched this opening scene in Inglorious B, I was sweating bullets for the Frenchman and the hidden Jews. The tension was unbearable. Just perfect filmmaking. It set up the villainous character of Landa like I've never seen before or after.

[@erictaylor5462]

2:00 Nazis are not always the villain. I can think of several films made between say, 1936 and 1945 in which the Nazis are the good guys.

[@dogsdreamtoo8427]

films, not historical events

[@erictaylor5462]

@@dogsdreamtoo8427 Go back and read my comment again. What am I talking about? Films or historical events? Hint: I mention what I'm talking about in the comment. Also, as you are not aware of the plainly obvious I doubt you will get the more subtle aspect. I am speaking about films made by Nazis. Also, there were real life "good guys" who were Nazis, though I suspect they were more Nazis in name than actions or political belief.

[@dogsdreamtoo8427]

@@erictaylor5462 which Nazis did good things for other people?

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

I feel like he almost certainly knows that she is Shoshanna, mainly because he orders her milk. Milk would be a super weird thing to order someone you just met, so I feel like it's more of "You escaped at the dairy farm, so here's some dairy to show you that we both know that I know who you are".

[@seaque.]

it could be to test if she's Jew. They can't drink milk with pork or something.

[@docmemphis]

He definitely knew who she was. He ordered milk with her strudel, iirc.

[@tylershelton5464]

I think your assessment of Landa is on point- Tarantino crafted a marvel of a villain. But I think the comparison and subsequent dismissal of Ordelle is a weak parallel. In my opinion, Ordelle was one of Tarantino's most dynamic and artfully crafted villains. His treachery isn't as gratuitous as Landa, as expected. Landa is the villain of a movie dominated by the SS and third Reich-- As you stated, in celluloid, Nazis carry an inherent evil- therefore for Landa to be an effective villain, all Tarantino had to do was magnify his character. We would find any character named "Jew hunter" vile and crafty- so QT just had to pay particular attention to the character's subtleties and peculiarities. Jackie Browne isn't a movie with clear cut villains/heroes, it doesn't have any of the presupposed context and archetypical weight a war movie, epic, or western movie has. Jackie Browne, like a lot of QT's films about the underworld, do not have the predefined "good vs bad" elements in stock that Inglorious has- but there are brilliant moments of making Ordelle a unique brand of villain: When he is listening to Johnny Cash to psyche himself up To kill Jackie, the way he operates in the back of frames (waiting at court, calling Max on the phone) his ease of Movement in the dark, the cheap way he likes to kill--whether tucker in the trunk or by gut shot thrown on his partner for seeing Max during the drop -- all of these fashion a unique villain and frame Ordelle as a viciously wise, slick, twisted, reptile with his own unique motivations, flaws, and strengths There is an element of realism in Jackie Browne that isn't present in his other films. A better villain to attack and compare would have been Kurt Russel's character in death proof. That was a fail of a villain. Like INglorious, death proof is playing on expectations of a genre- I.B. Is a restructured war epic, while death proof is a reconstruction of a slasher film. Stuntman mike and his character had no mystique, nothing remotely creepy, no development, no rhyme or reason, nothing intriguing cinematically except the obvious homage to 70's-80s B movies and as a general compass on how to fuck up a villain, or to make an ineffective monster- stuntman mike was QT's weakest contribution to his catalog;